Nonparametric deconvolution of density estimation based on observed sums

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-39

  Vexler, Albert ^a   Liu, Aiyi ^b   Schisterman, Enrique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Design of experiments; Fourier inversion; Nonparametric density estimation; Pooling blood samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953488166     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: 10290311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250903094286     Document Type: Article

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